Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2022 21:31:50 -0400 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using a FreeBSD desktop was somehting about dog food Message-ID: <772cf4b0-9e26-3126-ec4b-bd91986883dd@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <4f3edca7-45ec-b8ae-45dc-9648cced9bfe@kicp.uchicago.edu> References: <38b7f44-6d54-fec6-c1f0-d3609d301687@safeport.com> <20220327132420.201da20c@archlinux> <20220327212421.adaee52ba708a058e5ef6bd8@sohara.org> <4f3edca7-45ec-b8ae-45dc-9648cced9bfe@kicp.uchicago.edu>
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On 3/27/22 9:25 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > On 3/27/22 4:24 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >> On Sun, 27 Mar 2022 13:24:20 +0200 >> Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> wrote: >> >>> to get rid of X graphics issues on Linux I migrated away from AMD/ATI as >>> well as NVIDIA to Intel. For a lengthy period of time using Linux + >>> Intel was a pleasure. However, since the Intel X driver isn't maintained >>> anymore it's replaced by the modesettings driver. A lot of workarounds >>> are needed when using this driver and those do not necessarily help >>> very much, you e.g. might need to drop one or the other web browser. >>> Hardware video acceleration is tricky, even when using the obsolete >>> Intel driver, since not all apps are able to make usage of hardware >>> video acceleration. >> >> Quite so and all of this is neither Linux nor FreeBSD but rather >> the DRI/DRM project which does most of its development work on Linux >> AFAICT >> but is intended to be OS agnostic. Unfortunately this project has the >> problem of trying to play catch up with what the video card makers are >> doing in their Windows drivers. >> > Please, ignore my rant below. I figure, I have to learn reading carefully, before writing something. Thank you, Steve for deep insights of all your posts, including this one which I ranted about without even disagreeing with your points. Shame on me. Valeri > NVIDIA never releases the details of their chip internals. Therefore, no > open source driver can [legally] be written which is capable of, say, > have dual screen with different screen resolutions, as there is no > specs/description of how video RAM is mapped... ATI had always been open > about chipsets' internals (don't know how things changed when developing > continued after AMD bought them out), and therefore open source drivers > were extremely good. Now, NVIDIA's [proprietary] drivers are actually > written by NVIDIA itself. For those systems which NVIDIA prefers. I am > just ranting about Steve words of Linux catching up with Windows. > Respectfully disagree - very first time probably disagree with Steve. > Usually I learn from Steve, his knowledge is incomparably deeper than mine. > > Valeri
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